Manufacture of toy cards



Get. 24, 1944. PEDERSEN 2,360,973

MANUFACTURE OF 'rbY CARDS Filed March 26, 1943 WI, M,

Patented Oct. 24, 1944 MANUFACTURE or ror CARDS Hayes-Nrledersen, Racine; ,Wis. Application March 26, 1943, Serial No. 4sc,c50 I 2 Claims. (C1. 931) The current invention concerns certain betterments. and advantages in the production of toycards, such as may be combined together in various relations to provide different designs or configurations, the cards being especially devised foruse. by children whereby to amuse and interest them and to develop their creative propensities. I Oneaim'of the present invention is to provide a procedure whereby to supply a type of double or duplex cards having the stated capabilities or capacities and which may be manufactured on a commercial scale at relatively small expense..

, A further obiectof ,the invention is to afiord a method of making such style of cards that they may be manipulated and used by a childwith ease and facility, and of such varying shapes and colors as will attract the attention of a child and keep him pleased and interested in developing new arrangements or associations of thecards temporarily secured together in groups.

Ordinarily, these cards are made of different shapes and colors so as toprovide a set permitting selective engagement of such cards with one another thus allowing them to be impermanently associated together for the purpose of establishing'designs of pleasing and entertaining character, which depictments and patterns may be readily modified and changed by rearrangements of the cards.

To enable those acquainted with this art to understand the invention more fully, the method of making two shapes of such cardshas been illustrated in the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification and to which reference should be had in connection with the followin detailed description, and, in this drawing,

for simplicity, like reference numerals have been used to designate the same parts of the device used for the practice of the new process.

In such drawing Figures 1, 2 and 3 portray three different shapes of the duplex-cards made by the new procedure;

Figure 4 illustrates in plan the several steps in the production of such double-cards from a long strip or ribbon of pasteboard or equivalent material;

Figure 5 depicts the device in elevation;

Figure 6 shows in plan the duplex-cards before they have been cut apart;

Figures 7 and 8 present blanks for the making of round duplex-cards; and

Figures 9 and 10 show designs which can be be made by combining the cards of different shapes in various manners, Figure 9 presenting the cards grouped to picture a man or boy and Figure 10 showing a cart or wagon.

' To produce the new double-cards of the rectangular or square style presented in Figure 1, the following procedure is carried out. A long supply strip or ribbon I I of pasteboard, or its equivalent, is fed along on a table I2 intermitten'tly at a suitable speed by combined, powerrotated, feed and. pressure rollers I3,- M,- and, during recurrent periods of rest in such travel of'the supply-strip, a reciprocatory-punch I5 and companion stationary-die I 0 provides in the strip T-shaped apertures I! and smaller, straight'per- 'forations I6 of the shape and arrangement clearly depicted in Figure 4, the aligned'lengthwise parts I8 of the apertures I'I- leaving narrow, intervening bands I 9 between them, and the aligned transverse parts of the companion apertures I1 and I6 allowing intervening links or ties 2|.

During travel of the pasteboard strip or ribbon a row of longitudinally spaced-apart rectangular areas are coated with a suitable adhesive 22 on either side of the openings I8 bymeans of a power-operated rotary-brush or the like 23 re ceiving adhesive on its raised surfaces 24, 24 from that in a supply-receptacle 25- by means of intermediate feed-rollers-ZB, 26, all as will be readily understood;

Each of these adhesive-coated districts is in transverse register with the adjacent card 21 defined by the four apertures and corresponding edge of the ribbon or strip, such card constituting the upper or front card of the duplex-card undergoing production, the adhesive-coated area being less in size than such part 21.

Further along in its travel, approximately onehalf of the width of the slotted, adhesive-coated, pasteboard-ribbon encounters an appropriatelybent portion 28 of a sheet-metal guide or folder which turns over such longitudinal part of the sheet sidewise along one margin ofits lengthwise-registered slot-sections I8, I8 and down onto the top surface of the remainder of the strip to which it becomes adhered at the coated areas only, and as the strip moves along, rollers I3,

I4, by which it is thus advanced, press the adhe sive coated parts together assuring their efiective union, thus providing a double-thickness strip, a section of which is shown in plan in Figure 6.

During the intermission in the travel of the strip while the punch I5 is operating, a reciprocatory cutter 29, operated by any suitable mechanism not necessary to illustrate, descends and severs the double-thickness strip into indi- 2 vidual double-thickness or duplex-cards along the transverse lines 3l3l through the middle of the length of each link 2|, these links having previously been provided for the purpose of propthe margins free except for the banEi IS and this 1 allows other cards to be associated with the one illustrated by introducing portions o'f'the'ir margins between the two cards constituting this idilplex-card.

In making round duplex-cards with upperanii lower cards adhered together, the g-pasteboard supply-striptis i-punched to: cut out parts as shownin Figure 'Z'whereinthe .smaller, tront cardxis characterizeddl -andzthe companion larger lower card is designated, the mannerof -manufv-acturing such wards being :readily understood :from the forego-ing description with respect to the square ormectang-ularcards.

A double-card of idifierent --.dimens-ions :and shape is shoWn Figure-3 whereinwthe top=card is designated :5 I and the lbOttOIIl scard 52.

:These cards may be --temporarily interlocked or .ijoinedwtogether to ,provide.-difierent designs or -figures such, for example, as shownin Figures -9- and 10 wherein Figure '9 represents a boy or manrand Figure :10 a Wagon, and '-it is to he re membered-that these associated cards are readily id-isassociatedto be used-inthe:pnoductionof other shapes-and figures.

Thezprocess herein disclosed is not necessarily limited rto thelpreciseandexact details presented and various modifications :may be resorted to without departure from the :heart and essence of the invention and without the less or sacrifice ofwany ofwitssubstantial'benefits and-advantages. i

the following novel combination of steps, advancing strip-means of card material, including a continuous longitudinal series of back card-sections directly connected together crosswise and a lengthwise series of smaller front cards spaced 'df-dup1eX-cards into individual fiat toy margin- -ally-interfittable duplex-cards 0n transverse lines intermediate the length of each such link.

2. fln the process of making toy duplex-cards, the following novel combination of steps, successively punching a supply-strip of card-material to pi ovide such strip along zone longitudinal fzone with a centinunusilengthwisez series of back-'icardsection's idirectl y cormected together crosswise and a ileng'thwise series :o'f smaller front-cards spaced apart longitudinailly of the strip and in transverse registration :with their corresponding back card-sections and conne'cte'd itog'ethe'r lengthwise the supply strip by a link between each :pair of successive c'ards of the series and narrower thanathe width of such front-cards, eaenrsuch trsnt-eard 'bi-ng 'spaced laterally from its lccrrespendnrg backcard section and connected'dih'enete by a b'and di less =width than the dimension of the tront 'card lengthwise the strip, feeding said strip ior'wardly, :successively applying adhesive 'to areas cor said strip, each area beiiag' le'ss than that of a front-card and located to adhcre together the corresponding front-cards 'and backmard sections when folded into contact wi'th one anoth'e'r, ielding said-"strip progressively along said =ban'ds to bring said -iront-cards and back-card sections ii-n'to adhered registered contact with one another, and successively severing the completed duplex-1::ai :ls 'from the strip across the minale pints of saii'd links. I

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